Career

As a playwright he was best known as the joint author, with Alistair Foot, of the farce Number Sex Please, We"re British which opened at the Strand Theatre, London, on 3 June 1971. lieutenant has been performed in 52 countries and which on 21 February 1979 became the longest running comedy in the history of world theatre. A film version starring Ronnie Corbett was released in 1973.

Marriott also co-created the long-running British television series Public Eye with Roger Marshall.

He lived many years in Osterley, West London and was a Justice of the Peace.

With Alistair Foot, Uproar in the House, Garrick Theatre and Whitehall Theatre, 1967-1969

With John Chapman, Shut Your Eyes and Think of England, Apollo Theatre, 1977.